From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: from mail-ig0-f172.google.com (mail-ig0-f172.google.com [209.85.213.172]) by kanga.kvack.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id EF6E06B0069 for ; Wed, 19 Nov 2014 17:39:17 -0500 (EST) Received: by mail-ig0-f172.google.com with SMTP id hl2so3730059igb.17 for ; Wed, 19 Nov 2014 14:39:17 -0800 (PST) Received: from mail-ie0-x22c.google.com (mail-ie0-x22c.google.com. [2607:f8b0:4001:c03::22c]) by mx.google.com with ESMTPS id mp6si830999icb.39.2014.11.19.14.39.16 for (version=TLSv1 cipher=ECDHE-RSA-RC4-SHA bits=128/128); Wed, 19 Nov 2014 14:39:16 -0800 (PST) Received: by mail-ie0-f172.google.com with SMTP id ar1so1600686iec.17 for ; Wed, 19 Nov 2014 14:39:16 -0800 (PST) Date: Wed, 19 Nov 2014 14:39:14 -0800 (PST) From: David Rientjes Subject: Re: [PATCH 1/3] hugetlb: fix hugepages= entry in kernel-parameters.txt In-Reply-To: <1415831593-9020-2-git-send-email-lcapitulino@redhat.com> Message-ID: References: <1415831593-9020-1-git-send-email-lcapitulino@redhat.com> <1415831593-9020-2-git-send-email-lcapitulino@redhat.com> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-linux-mm@kvack.org List-ID: To: Luiz Capitulino Cc: linux-mm@kvack.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, akpm@linux-foundation.org, andi@firstfloor.org, riel@redhat.com, isimatu.yasuaki@jp.fujitsu.com, yinghai@kernel.org, davidlohr@hp.com On Wed, 12 Nov 2014, Luiz Capitulino wrote: > The hugepages= entry in kernel-parameters.txt states that > 1GB pages can only be allocated at boot time and not > freed afterwards. This is not true since commit > 944d9fec8d7aee, at least for x86_64. > > Instead of adding arch-specifc observations to the > hugepages= entry, this commit just drops the out of date > information. Further information about arch-specific > support and available features can be obtained in the > hugetlb documentation. > > Signed-off-by: Luiz Capitulino Acked-by: David Rientjes -- To unsubscribe, send a message with 'unsubscribe linux-mm' in the body to majordomo@kvack.org. For more info on Linux MM, see: http://www.linux-mm.org/ . Don't email: email@kvack.org